Undaunted: My Fight

Against America's
Enemies, At Home and
Abroad
 By
John O. Brennan
St Martin's Press
 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** John
Brennan is one of the hardest-working, most patriotic public
servants I've ever seen, and our country is better off for it. As
president, he was one of my closest advisors and a great friend. And
in his memoir, Undaunted, you'll see why. I hope you'll read it.
--President Barack Obama

A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John

Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government. Friday,
January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock
was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would
be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with
President-elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John
Brennan said his final farewell to Owen Brennan, his father, the
man who had taught him the lessons of goodness, integrity, and
honor that had shaped the course of an unparalleled career serving
his country from within the intelligence community. In this brutally
honest memoir, Brennan, the son of an Irish immigrant who settled
in New Jersey, describes the life that took him from being a young
CIA recruit enamored with the mystique of spy work, secretly
defiant enough to drive a motorcycle and sport a diamond earring,
and invigorated by his travels in the Middle East to being the most
powerful individual in American intelligence. He details his
experiences with very different presidents and what it's been like to
bear responsibility for some of the nation's most crucial and
polarizing national security decisions. He pulls back the curtain on
the inner workings of the Agency, describing the selfless, patriotic,
and invisible work of the women and men involved in national
security. He also examines the insularity, arrogance, and myopia
that have, at times, undermined its reputation in the eyes of the
American people and of members of other branches of government.
Through topics ranging from George W. Bush's intervention in Iraq
to his thoughts on the CIA's controversial use of enhanced
interrogation techniques to his eye-opening account of the planning
of the raid that resulted in Bin Ladin's death to his realization that
Russia had interfered with the 2016 election, Brennan brings the
reader behind the scenes of some of the most crucial moments in
recent U.S. history. He also candidly discusses the times he has
failed to live up to his own high standards and the very public
fallouts that have resulted. With its behind-the-scenes look at how
major U.S. national security policies and actions unfolded during his
long and distinguished career--especially during his eight years in
the Obama administration--John Brennan's memoir is a work of
history with strong implications for the future of America and our
country's relationships with other world powers. Undaunted: My
Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad offers a rare
and insightful look at the often-obscured world of national security,
the intelligence profession, and Washington's chaotic political
environment. But more than that, it is a portrait of a man striving for
integrity; for himself, for the CIA, and for his country.

St Martin's Press

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